Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:28
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9.1/10
Reviews for Au Hasard Balthazar
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 5/5 |
If you can see past the heavy-handed religious overtones you will encounter an inspired and deeply intelligent Bresson classic. Full Review |
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The film is perhaps the director's most perfectly realised, and certainly his most moving. Full Review |
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A strange and bittersweet triumph. Full Review |
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Perhaps the greatest and most revolutionary of Bresson's films, Balthazar is a difficult but transcendently rewarding experience, never to be missed. Full Review |
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5/5 |
likely as lost on today's audience as the saintly donkey that bears man's burdens on his back only to be beaten, neglected and, finally, rejected. Full Review |
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The film does maintain a powerful mood throughout, a kind of stringency, and the fate of the humans fades into insignificance as the film draws to a bleak close. Full Review |
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4/4 |
It's a study of human weakness and cruelty, it's a portrait of Christ the suffering servant, it's the heartbreaking story of a young girl's descent from innocence to despair. But above all, it's a movie about a donkey. Full Review |
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A+ |
Bresson's greatest masterpiece. Full Review |
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A deft, impassioned, and wrenching film, but also — emphatically, absurdly — a film about a donkey. Indeed, it hardly pretends to be much more. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Each scene emerges as a minor miracle. Which makes the sum total an object of extraordinary glory. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The lens of dispassion Bresson invites us to look through during Balthazar embodies "a prayer which slips into life without interrupting it." Full Review |
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Bresson’s most poetic, haunting, personal work. Full Review |
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Robert Bresson's aesthetic of realist, material sounds and images assembled in paradoxical ways virtually defines the cinematic parable... Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
This is what makes Au Hasard Balthazar so powerful, and yet so distant. It asks as much of its audience as it does of its characters... Full Review |
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4/5 |
This is neither an easy film, nor, in the show biz sense, an entertaining one. It makes large demands upon its audience, and in return confers exceptional rewards. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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4/4 |
Quietly devastating, nearly perfect allegory. Full Review |
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[In Au hasard Balthazar] the suffering is tempered...with the sense of small relief for the quiet little donkey that captured my heart. Full Review |
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The most modern equivalent of [Balthazar's] final scene may be the ending of Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves." Full Review |
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4/4 |
Bresson is one of the saints of the cinema, and Au Hasard Balthazar is his most heartbreaking prayer. Full Review |
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